Wow you are off-base on a lot of stuff here. This ended up just barely spilling past the 10k character limit, I do encourage you to read to the end tho because like the bottom line I want to land on here is that I'm a lot cooler w/ AWR than you might think I am?? Like a lot of what you're saying seems to be targeted at huge anti-AWR statements that I just do not think I made or anti-AWR views I don't hold. I think he's a good poster
You could look back less than a day into their comment history if you actually cared about the topic of discussion.
I didn't feel compelled to dig into someone's Reddit history for this, I figured I'd just tag the guy so he could say whatever he wanted on the matter, but thanks for the link
"Aubry was Robbed" is more pro-Aubry than anti-Michele
I don't think there's much difference between the two with respect to something as binary as the jury vote, and if you're active on the sub then surely you're aware that in the case of S32 specifically the anti-Michele connotation is obvious. I mean frankly - like there's a ton of things you say here about the username that don't make sense, and I'll address them, but the fact that he literally said in this thread "I can no longer change the username, it simply reflects my past, not current, feelings", which you yourself brought up near the end, means that I don't see much reason to sit around defending it anyway?
You can argue that Aubry robbed herself from Jury feedback that they would have voted for her had her game been more visible on the island.
Yeah by all means find me literally anywhere that anyone has ever said that, let alone sincerely and not as some parody of Aubry stans. That is not what people mean when they say a runner-up is "robbed" and it never has been. That and like I literally would get into discussions about Kaoh Rong with AWR specifically, as a result of that username back in the day, years ago. It has been years and I don't care a whole ton now or remember those discussions at length but I definitely do not recall ever seeing someone say "Aubry was robbed by herself and her own inferior jury management" because I mean that doesn't even make sense. So maybe someone could hypothetically try to argue that in a way where it's actually a meaningful sentence but that's not what was ever the case here, if memory serves.
If AWR wanted to create an intentionally malicious username they would have gone with something that point-blank criticizes Michele.
You used the word "malicious" three different times in your comment and I did not suggest or imply malice of any form to any extent in my comment at all, so let me clarify this, since it's not just a matter of picking a different adjective or w/e but, given that malice very much denotes a certain intent, I think suggests a disconnect between what I was trying to say and how it was received. I'm not saying AWR was trying to hurt Michele's feelings at the time he made the username or w/e, but that suggesting that a runner-up was "robbed" in the jury vote compared to a winner is innately disrespectful of, even if not malicious towards, the winner in question, the jurors who chose them, and really the core structure and format of the game itself whereby jurors pick the winner. "Malice" does not have to enter the equation at all. You don't have to be "malicious" towards Michele, or Debbie or whoever else, to still be saying something that's disrespectful of the former's game and the latter's jury vote, or that makes illogical claims about the game in general. So this makes most things you say about "malice" pretty much irrelevant since that's an entirely different conversation and is responding to accusations I didn't make
The hyperbole comes in that sentiment becoming a meme [...] further we get out from that moment in fandom history, the more ridiculous the memory gets.
Yeah I dunno you're stretching pretty hard here haha. I mean AWR can correct me if I'm wrong, by all means, but based on my memory of chats about the jury vote years ago, pretty sure the username wasn't some meta reference to the fact that other people thought Aubry was robbed, and wasn't a username chosen because "oh man, three years from now in 2020, it's going to be a hilarious and ridiculous username that retroactively serves as a memory of how far out we are from that moment" like what? It's pretty straightforward haha. He literally said, just now, in this thread, that the username is one that can't be changed and that was made when he felt differently about KR than he does today so like idk why you're reaching so hard to find so many alternate contorted explanations for what is a very simplistic and straightforward username.
I seriously doubt every single one of their views would be filtered through that lens to spread negativity on that specific subject
Cool good thing I didn't say anything about or even approaching "all AWR's views are filtered through that particular lens with the intention of being malicious towards Michele" or whatever so like this section of your comment is entirely wack bc where did I say anything about all AWR's views? I think AWR is pretty chill and does a lot for the community. I literally said so in the comment you're replying to. So I don't know where this idea that I'm making some broad, sweeping accusation of every last one of his comments being filtered through some lens is even, like, coming from.
It's more likely, just as in AWR's case, that they wanted to make their username something Survivor-related as a way to engage with the show on a deeper level and make it part of their online identity.
Yea I mean the words in the username still are what they are haha it's not like the username is AubrysOregonTrail or AubryColeslaw32 or JoeHasDiedOfDysentery or something. "Making it something Survivor-related" and expressing a specific idea about Survivor are not mutually exclusive
Splittin' this into two comments because of the character limit